Those pics trigger some nice memories... Hmm, was that small pump shaftalready gone in 2012 or did I just not find it on your site?

BTW, those 85 uSv/h close to "Joker" are mostly coming from just oneplace: The mudguard (check the pictures). Chances are we've foundsome Pu here since the tube in this GS usually gives only about 10%higher readings when opening the alpha cover on pure beta/gammaspot sources.

Those pics trigger some nice memories... Hmm, was that small pump shaftalready gone in 2012 or did I just not find it on your site?

I think it was not longer there in 2012..

jsbid hat geschrieben:BTW, those 85 uSv/h close to "Joker" are mostly coming from just oneplace: The mudguard (check the pictures). Chances are we've foundsome Pu here since the tube in this GS usually gives only about 10%higher readings when opening the alpha cover on pure beta/gammaspot sources.

Yeah, "Joker" is the absolutely highlight of the exhibition in Buryakivka. In one of documetarys he was mentioned as " the diligent german, who could not withstand the soviet radiation" and "hi died after few minutes stay on the graphite block on the roof of the third reactor building"..After the damage soldiers had to help him out with such usual tools like spade and pulley..

som3e hat geschrieben:In one of documetarys he was mentioned as " the diligent german, who could not withstand the soviet radiation" and "hi died after few minutes stay on the graphite block on the roof of the third reactor building"..

For the sake of the "retrieval of Joker's honour" (and therefore Germanenginieering ;-)) it is being told(*) that the Soviets "whitewashed" theradiation levels on the roof between block 3 and 4 down to 10%(!) ofthe real values in order to downplay the true severity of the accident.As a result, Joker was outlayed to withstand these (lower) levels --and not a tenfold increase...

Buryakivka is one of the places where you always had to be "lucky".That means, not applicable for standard programmes and AFAIKcurrently more or less "out of reach". But at the end this means nothing:When the Zone was officially closed in 2011, I've been there. It isnothing compared to Rassocha back in the good old days but stillhighly impressive -- Joker, STR-1, helicopters sitting on trucks,the tank lorry emitting 3 mSv/h on its surface... all these will probablybe lodged in memory forever.

The Zone is a place where you can't predict anything -- go there,trust to luck, be happy if it worked, come back if it didn't...